Full Idea
A more radical alternative which takes names not to be referring even in the broader sense, but only takes speakers to refer with uses of names.
Gist of Idea
Maybe not even names are referential, but are just by used by speakers to refer
Source
Thomas Hofweber (Ontology and the Ambitions of Metaphysics [2016], 08.1)
Book Reference
Hofweber,Thomas: 'Ontology and the Ambitions of Metaphysics' [OUP 2018], p.205
A Reaction
Given that you can make up nicknames and silly nonce names for people, this seems plausible. I may say a name in a crowded room and three people look up.
Related Idea
Idea 21650 No language is semantically referential; it all occurs at the level of thought or utterance [Pietroski, by Hofweber]